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Unmarked graves. A lot of them.
Indian fantasy: necklace of diamonds, India supapowa 2030 and $5 trillion economy by 2025
Reality: necklace of one cow dung
Don't know about the other German users or Dutch users on SDF but I spent roughly 100€ for weekly groceries and pre covid & pre war it was more like 40€ -60€ while wages basically stayed the same since covid.
two cents:
1) having doubts is a great trait of a leader. Anyone with no doubt at all for something this big is a lunatic. Having doubts leads to more prep, which then leads to better chance of succeeding. Chinese leaders never said the mainland can take Taiwan easily today. They always emphasize China mainland will prevail eventually. Western culture see doubts as weakness because their culture is much more faith based. They also see things in shorter term, which means having doubts or not having the capability now is all they care about. But having doubt is a great thing when you look longer term.
2) China, a country with little recent war experience, benefited more than anyone else from learning from the Ukrain war. It clearly validated some of the recent investment and will stengthen whatever they see as potential weakness. PLA is already learning more from the US than Russia. But I think Russia could also bounce back from this and modernize. (US bounced back form Vietnam led to Gulf success, which then led to militarism and nation building disaster. it's cyclical for sure)
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I agree with all your points except the part about China with little war experience. Unless you're only referring to the current PRC the I guess technically you're correct.
I just checked my January energy bill over the last 5 years here in the Netherlands.
2019 = € 240
2020 = € 260
2021 = € 280
2022 = € 360
2023 = € 907
2023 is without the dutch price ceiling having taking into effect so i only have to pay like €500 but the rest will paid by the government so indirectly i will be paying for it via taxes..
This is only the for the months of January, the month of December is just as expensive, if you're really unlucky the month of February can also have 2 weeks of intense frost..
Yeah i'm also at around €100~120 groceries pre war it was more like €60~80
I watched the YouTube channel, Unherd lead by Freddie Sayer (Swedish/Ukrainian) because he does not let his bias dictates too much his views on issues that are contentious and is interested to hear and actually listen from another perspective.
Here he is as a guest on BBC politics show discussing the Ukraine War where he's pretty much the only one asking legitimate and realistic questions rather than empty vacuous rhetorical nonsense from the intellectuals from various political parties on the panel.
Here he is as a guest on BBC politics show discussing the Ukraine War where he's pretty much the only one asking legitimate and realistic questions rather than empty vacuous rhetorical nonsense from the intellectuals from various political parties on the panel.
Everyone has "little" war experience. Except Russia and Ukraine maybe, but even they're just getting a glimpse of what things look like.
Its like in the lead up to WW1. Then, the Boer war was fought but because both sides were fairly crappy, they did dig trenches but could not properly defend them most of the time.
Ukraine and Russia are benefitting from mass drone usage, satellite intel, in Russia's case, they're also able to throw up a very pale imitation of the missile regimen a true world class 2020s era military could throw out.
But we don't know what happens when the floodgates are really opened, when you have the biggest drone manufacturers in the world printing out suicide drones and spotters, when you have US taking full advantage of GPS while China is using Beidou that is even more accurate in Eurasia, when both sides actually can manufacture lots of missiles, and when not just 2 or 3 hypersonic missiles are fired but 100s or 1000s.
Training, simulation, is really the only way modern world class militaries can get experience for real conflict.